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Leaks, whistle-blowers and the networked news ecology
The WikiLeaks exposés are altering the informational landscape for good. Whilst acknowledging the structural leakiness of networked organizations, Felix Stalder finds deeper reasons for the crisis of information security and the new distribution of investigative journalism. [more]
Painting the glass house black
Faced with outrageous tuition-fee hikes resulting from the financialization of universities, California's students are agitating for the first time in years. But is there more to these mobilizations than the limited fight for a decent and "affordable" education? [more]
Apocalypse, tendency, crisis
Marx's comment that history advances by the "bad side" has inspired an apocalyptic strand of anti-capitalism that supposes history is "on our side". Benjamin Noys takes issue with the accelerationist approach that welcomes apocalypse as the decisive moment. [more]
On the post-city
As global megacities render the urban grid and its certainties obsolete, societies of discipline become societies of control. Daniel Miller cracks open the password protected "post-city". [Lithuanian version added] [more]
Climate change CO2onialism: What impacts for the South?
Cap-and-trade is a system that interferes with development patterns in the South to offset carbon emissions resulting from "business as usual" in the North. Politics should be seeking alternatives to the trading model, such as legally binding targets on renewable energy. [more]
The return of the red bourgeoisie
An interview with Nada Prlja
Artist Nada Prlja on the aesthetics of communist Yugoslavia and contemporary cultural mutations: how the Yugoslav Black Wave cinema of the 1970s might inform a "critical communism" for the present. [more]
Debt: The first five thousand years
Throughout history, institutions have existed to control the potentially catastrophic social consequences of debt. It is only in the current era that we have begun to see the creation of the first planetary administrative system to protect the interests of creditors. [more]
The who and whom of liberty taking
A recent exhibition at the British Library on the struggle for freedom and rights throughout 900 years of British history was impressive, writes Peter Linebaugh. But, he wonders, is it possible to discuss liberty while excluding the question of equality? [more]
From subprime to slump?
The world has seen the power of money to socialize the costs of capitalist crisis, but are prices going to go on rising to Weimar-like levels? Jon Amsden explores the origins of the crisis and discerns something worse than inflation on the horizon. [more]
Manufactured scarcity
"Manufacturing scarcity" is the new watchword in "Green capitalism". James Heartfield explains how for the energy sector, it has become a license to print money. Pioneered by Enron in the 1990s, the model of restricted supply is now promoted worldwide. [more]
Blurred boundaries
Sport, art and activity
Is the convergence of art and sport under the pressure of pseudo-participatory spectacle undermining the utopian potential of both? Benedict Seymour goes back to the future to recover the new kind of activity which, in different ways, is still informing them. [more]
The Spine
The introduction of a national health database in the UK is being carried out by a typically wasteful private finance initiative. Total data transparency may be good for corporations and security obsessed governments, but what does it mean for the recipients of "joined-up care"? [more]
Shopping town USA
Victor Gruen, the Cold War, and the shopping mall
Victor Gruen's "shopping towns" were supposed to strengthen civic life and alleviate women's lives. But within a decade they had become the architectural expression of the policy of gender segregation underlying the US postwar consumer utopia. [more]
The magic of debt, or Amortize this!
Today we don't feel guilty about incurring debts, just the opposite -- indebtedness is the entry price of being a good citizen, pulling more and more of us into the global financial system. [more]
Capital climes
Today, an Indian child consumes one ninetieth of the energy of her American counterpart. Such comparisons discredit the consensus that it is simply the mass activity of "man" which is responsible for global warming. [more]
Drowning by numbers
The non-reproduction of New Orleans
After the actual hurricane that hit New Orleans in late August 2005 came the second hurricane of neo-liberal looting. The vacuum left by the evacuation of the working-class population and the storm’s destruction of infrastructure produced the dream conditions for economic "restructuring". [more]
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